elgato
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Location: Texas
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| Posted: Thu Apr 24, 2008 9:17 am Post subject: Scammers Target Craigslist Realtor |
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Newspaper classifieds have a friend in scammers. Though hemorrhaging sales to Craigslist, fraudulent posters there may drive legitimate businesspeople back to where they've done business for decades.
Gwen Mathews, for example, is a real estate agent for Remax Creative in Lexington, Kentucky, and not an X-ray welder working for a Nigerian ship building company. Gwen the real estate agent has a cute little house available for rent near campus for $990 a month. Gwen the welder has the same house for just $700, presumably a cut in price because Gwen the welder is in a real bind and has to get back to Nigeria immediately.
Gwen the welder doesn't seem aware there are no seaports in Kentucky, nor that there is more than one United State, but asks you to contact her anyway "on #0112347023377964," whatever that means.
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